Sony D-5

[hakka26]

Found this on the way home after I scored a Sansui 9090DB. Couldn't figure out how to power it up or where batteries went.:confused: After some 20 minutes I found the adapter elsewhere. It powered up and spun a cd so for $2.99 (1/2 price) I took it home. Hooked it up to the 9090DB and away she played.)dance( But it is very sensitive and will skip if you look at it wrong. IIRC this was Sony's second "portable" cdp following the D-50 and just before the first "Discman" (also have). Can't see how it is "portable" as it has no batteries. Did they make a battery pack for it? Too tired to clean it.

[Scorpion8]

I had one of those! Was my first stand-alone CDP and I had it on top of the entertainment center with cords run into the AU-717. It played fine, and always wondered what happened to all of them. The docking port was unique, so it was portable or shelf-based.

[MacGyver]

:-)<-excellent find!! i have a fully functional D-4 discman that i got at a yard sale for .25 several years back. i'll be posting pics...

[hakka26]

Cleaned it up and left it to play. Much better and not as touchy. Sounds like it could use a lube job. The Lady may be right about burning cds at a slower speed (Kyocera thread) as, surprise, it had no prob playing a cdr. I did discover Sony did have a battery pack for it.

[MacGyver]

Cleaned it up and left it to play. Much better and not as touchy. Sounds like it could use a lube job. The Lady may be right about burning cds at a slower speed (Kyocera thread) as, surprise, it had no prob playing a cdr. I did discover Sony did have a battery pack for it.



indeed, personal experience tells me that most any vintage CDP of just about any type will do perfectly fine with slow-speed RECed CD-Rs. so far, the only deck i've had difficulty with is a low-end 1986 KENWOOD single disc that is non-remote controllable. (why the HELL did anybody actually make any non-remote controllable CDPs, low-end or not?!?!) while it will still play any CD-R you load upon it, it tends to lock-up and STOP when you attempt to jump tracks. still, this is only a LOW-END model, and just about any vintage CDP worth owning (mid-to TOTL) will be virtually guaranteed to handle low-speed RECed CD-Rs just fine. my 1986 DENON DCD-1500 in fact will play even high-speed (40x) discs largely without a hitch!! how's that for future-proof engineering? o-o:-)

[graffias79]

I have found that some CD players have "vision trouble" with CD-Rs, especially those burnt at over 8x speed.

A good solution I found for myself years ago was to buy a Plextor Premium CD burner. It comes with a program called Plextools Pro that allows me to slow the burning speed to 4x or 8x and allows me to adjust the intensity of the laser beam. I believe it has +4/-4 arbitrary measurement notches. I have excellent luck with +3 at 4x speed. It also allows me to select the type of material that the CD's data film is made of (or leave at default if I have no idea, which is usually the case lol)

I bought it for $99 back in late 2003 from tiger I think.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c108/graffias79/plex.jpg

[shstrang98]

I have/had one of those. I originally bought the D5 around the end of 1985. After about 4 weeks it started skipping so I sent it to a Sony station over in Dallas and they sent me the units replacement, the d14.

About the only real difference I could see is that it came with the sled whereas the D5 had it as an option.

It still works today.